Re: 2013 Lineup Confirmation/Rumors Thread

This was posted today. If Coachella hooks up with Creators Project again, they need to bring him back. 2:20 =

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Re: 2013 Lineup Confirmation/Rumors Thread

Originally Posted by deadmau5

"Ultra to me is the definition of insanity: Doing the same f*cking thing every year, expecting different results every time. It's fun and it's cool, and if you've never been, go. But if you are one of those dudes that go every year, it's like why would you go again?"

"Five hundred and ninety-five f*cking dollars for a ticket? Wow, someone is laughing to the bank."

"When they used to do it during the conference, it was awesome. But then there was some bullsh*t going down too. I'm not gonna say anything about anyone. But say you are a headliner DJ dude, Ultra will pay you X amount of dollars to be exclusive to Ultra, which I guess is alright if you are an A-liner ... [Winter Music Conference] used to be the Christmas for the f*cking DJ, because you go to Miami for a week and play up to eight gigs that f*cking week, easily."

"[a] p*ssing contest between dudes who played all over the world."

"It's like that for all major North American festivals ... Even if you don't want to, you are competing against the festival programmer, you are competing against the other acts, you are competing against the time slots."

Re: 2013 Lineup Confirmation/Rumors Thread

Originally Posted by bettycarolyn

he's only played 2010

Wrong wrong wrong. He's played 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. He didn't play in 2012 because he through a shit fit like he normally does at big shows. He is back again this year because the label he is signed to, Ultra Records, teamed up with UMF for the festival this year.

That being said I would watch him on the Polo Fields if nothing better was going on.

Re: 2013 Lineup Confirmation/Rumors Thread

the only one i can think of is Smashing Pumpkins in '05 i think..the Police rumors were a late add thing. and mayyybe the Neil Young rumors in 2010, but was that a headliner?

this time of year is when we confirmed Paul McCartney, Portishead, The Killers, Muse, The Who, Arcade Fire..

i hope you are right because i would love those headliners, but is this really a "leak" though? i thought this whole thing got started because people were editing the pages or whatever.

honestly though, it feels like we are definitely getting phoenix as a headliner, YYYs as a sub, who knows with the stones, and im gonna go ahead and say we will add another year since 2006 that those french guys are missing from the poster